Amazon adds multi-room audio for Echo, cuts music prices

Amazon has unveiled a major software update for its Echo speaker allowing the gadget to work as a multi-room hifi system. It also revealed a new developer kit that will allow an Echo to control speakers made by other firms, such as Bose, Samsung and Sonos for the first time. The update will allow users to simply ask for the music they want to hear in each room - or to listen to music throughout the house. Rumors from earlier this month that Amazon is launching multi-room audio have come to fruit. Starting today users with multiple Echo products can play music simultaneously in multiple rooms.